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  1. You might find this thread interesting. See the last 2 pages.
  2. I once left a bike at the river takeout to get back to the car, and then left the key to the bike lock in the car! Doh.
  3. This is my rod float solution. I didn't like the hard pool lane buoy, but the pool noodle works great. The short leash doesn't interfere with casting, placing them in rodholders or moving the rods around the boat. As far as the W Sound, if the wind is coming in from the E strong it can get pretty exciting out there, I've been in some real rollers coming down the sound and could only fish by hiding behind islands and points.
  4. You've swallowed the propaganda hook, line and sinker. You're so surrounded by the benefits of government you don't even see it, you're like a fish that says "what's water?" Every time you drive, turn on a light, catch a weather report, see a doctor, or feel safe putting your money in a bank, you're reaping the benefits of 'government'. You remind me of that sh*thead DiSantis who as a Congressman voted no to hurricane aid to NJ but as FL governor demanded all the govt aid he could get!
  5. Good catch, whistle is permanently on the same mini coiled leash inside a PFD pocket that has the 'dumb' car key. I also forgot to mention spare glasses. I have pretty bad vision, and have string behind my head on my glasses, but one nightmare scenario is a rod or line catching my glasses and flinging them into the deep! What's the handle for?
  6. My checklist. On the knife issue, I carry one on my PFD that is rarely used for anything. A pair of heavy duty scissors like the $10 ones below from Harbor Freight will chunk bunker, snip braid, mono or strips of squid, or cut the throat of a gator blue.
  7. Why not a forehead tattoo?
  8. Yer crazy! Seriously. I can hold a grudge with the best of them, but if it were me I'd paddle it, it's a tool not a fashion or identity statement (unless you're Northern Irish). What did you have your heart set on, the blue or green? IMO of the 3 I'd take orange for the safety factor. I WANT to be seen out there!
  9. Damn, sweet boat! I'd paddle it whatever color after waiting a year. Almost all my boats for 35 years have been used, and yellow. Not crazy about yellow, just resigned to it! If I didn't already have an SP (yellow) I'd be seriously interested. I'm certain there's an orange fan out there to take it off your hands. If I were you I'd post a link to this thread in this one in the kayak forum.
  10. I think where we differ is defining "crime". I see a big difference between speeding 15mph over the limit and bank robbery. One is 'pushing the boundary' and the other is blatant and deliberate theft. Likewise I see a big difference between a guy who measured his fish badly and one who has a cooler filled with 19 poached fish, some oversize and some undersized.
  11. Ok, what about going 100 in a 25? Take the car away? A guy did that a few months ago here, killed a driver and 2 of his passengers. Perhaps if he had had his $100k car taken away for previous infractions they'd be alive. My point is scale matters. 19 fish isn't an oopsie, or not paying sales tax, its a big FU to everybody in the fishing community. And saying that we should wait for a 2nd or 3rd offense is stupid since they were lucky to get them this time. I don't agree with jail time, but forfeiture seems a way to not only ensure they don't do it again, but NO ONE will! And that's really the point. If you can lose your boat for commercial level poaching, no one will poach just to make a grand or 2.
  12. What about assault in a boxing ring? That's a place with agreed code of conduct outside the law. People's memories suck, and suck especially after something traumatic. But the focus on the trigger is stupid. The DP's life should not have depended on a geezer pulling a gun from a shoulder holster and NOT accidentally pulling the trigger. It depended on NO LIVE AMMO BEING ANYWHERE ON THE LOCATION! I say again and again, this scene could have had a child holding the gun, and the proper industry protocol would have been exactly the same. Treat all actors like they are children, period. If they choose to examine the gun, fine, but there has never been a requirement. In this case of dummies he would have had to remove ALL the ammunition and shaken them individually to test if they were live.
  13. You may have read something different than I have, everything I read described a closely supervised rehearsal, that's why the DP and director were right in front of him! It sounded like they were having him repeatedly draw the pistol so they could frame it. As far as we know, all three had been told the weapon was 'cold', as in you can do anything you want with it because there is not even a blank charge in there. At that point any discussion of triggers and pointing become moot. What if this was a war movie and the propmaster handed an actor a hand grenade prop telling them to pull the pin and throw it, and it turned out to be live! How would that be the actor's fault? "Never throw a hand grenade at someone you're not trying to kill"?
  14. If by all my ducks in a row you mean do I NOT poach on a large scale to sell meat? That would be a "yes".
  15. And yet they seem to stop on a racetrack and all the other exceptions gave.
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